Description

This is a utility for converting lots of posts or pages to a custom post type (or vice versa). You can limit the conversion to posts in a single category or children of specific page. You can also assign new taxonomy terms, which will be added to the posts’ existing terms.

This plugin is useful for converting many posts at once. If you’d rather do one at a time, use Post Type Switcher instead.

Installation

Install a database backup plugin, like WP DB Backup. Make a backup of your database, and make sure you know how to restore your site using the backup. I’m not kidding. Do this first!

Upload this plugin directory to /wp-content/plugins/

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to Tools → Convert Post Types to convert your posts.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Install a database backup plugin, like WP DB Backup. Make a backup of your database, and make sure you know how to restore your site using the backup. I’m not kidding. Do this first!

Upload this plugin directory to /wp-content/plugins/

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to Tools → Convert Post Types to convert your posts.

Reviews

This plugin does easily allow you to “bulk” change from one post type to another. But keep in mind you need to have that post type already set up on your new site before you can convert it. The part of this plugin that does not work is that it doesn’t assign the categories that were selected.

It converts the post type, but it gives it a blank category. This requires you to manually look for the newly converted posts and manually assign the categories yourself. 🙁

I build and maintain small business websites for a living and I recently had a client that wanted to change themes. We were using The7 by ThemeForest, and are changing to Divi by Elegant Themes. The7 had several built-in custom post types that we were using, but of course when I changed the theme the content was simply inaccessible. I found this plugin to be a good solution.

I had to reactivate the old theme so that the custom post types were re-registered, then I converted them to normal Posts. The category assignment feature didn’t work as I thought it would, but I batch assigned a temporary category to all of the posts I was converting.

Then I changed themes to the new one, and used the plugin again to convert all posts in the temporary category to a new custom post type in the Divi theme.

This worked great for me, but it’s pretty simplistic and may not work as well in everyone’s case. This plugin saved me a ton of time not having to rebuild those post items.